House Selling Update

Our house has been on the market a few months now so I thought I'd give an update on how that's been going.

                                                      

Meh...that pretty much sums it up. :) We were really excited and gung-ho about selling when we first started. We did a TON of home improvements in only about 3 weeks to get the house ready to go on the market. We got really excited by doing all that and the house was looking great! We had a few people interested right away but no offers or anything. Then we had a few open houses, which are a huge PITA in my opinion. You gotta clean clean clean and that is not easy with a 2 year old running around! Plus we had to get our dogs and kiddo out to have the open house and that was a huge pain too. We had a few people come to our first open house but nada at the second one. So we decided to take a break from that.

Also, I was really driving myself nuts trying to keep the house spotless "just in case" someone came over during the day or that evening or something. That was not stressing me out and that's not healthy! Plus, as time went on, I really had to start getting stuff ready for the new baby and keeping a house spotless really wasn't gelling with that plan.

It was good that I decided to chill out too because people stopped calling. Our real estate agent said it's been slow towards the end of the summer the past few years. She said things typically pick up in September and toward the end of the year so we decided to just wait and see what happens. Well September and the end of the year is when this baby is coming! So who knows what will happen.

We also had one other notable thing happen recently. Steven found a teeny tiny jar of BLACK car touch up paint in our junk drawer one day when weren't looking. It took him about 2 minutes alone to create this mess directly on our hardwood floors, walls, door and rug.

Yep, that happened.

This is what I thought when I saw it. OOOOOOMMMMMMMGGGGGGGG!

OMG is right!

It took Steve and I about 2 hours scrubbing to get the paint off the hardwood and probably another hour to get it off the door. Oh Steven also walked in the paint and then down the hallway to our room to show us how he "painted". Unfortunately the hardwood took a beating getting the stain out and we will probably have to reseal or refinish them at some point. And the rug was a goner. I wasn't too upset about this because we've had that rug for over 4 years and it was definitely showing some wear and tear. I ordered a new one from Target online and I really am happy with it. Here's the living room now:

     

I think it really goes nicely with the curtains :)

                                                 

So besides that tragedy our downstairs fridge decided to quit on us recently. We thought about replacing it and I kind of freaked out on Steve about it so we went to buy a new one. But we ended up canceling the order after talking to our real estate agent about it. We still have one working fridge and a deep freeze and she advised that if we moved soon we would want to buy a fridge that matches our new place. So we will wait on that a bit and see how we do.

So that's it really. Nobody's really interested in our house yet, which is fine we aren't in any big hurry to move. The longer we stay put the more money we can save. It would certainly be nice to have a bigger place with the new baby coming but the idea of moving with a newborn is not exciting to me at all. So we are just keeping the house on the market for now and if someone wants to see it we will show it to them but on our schedule, especially once the baby comes. If something exciting does happen I'll be sure to let you know but so far, nufin. (and that's ok).